Re: OpenType on Linux (was: Sequential Fathatan Final Form (Items 9 and 10))

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 20:39, Mete Kural wrote:
> Salaam Abdulhaq,
>
> > > That's not true is it? My understanding is that it
> > > is the responsibility of
> > > the text client to inspect GSUB and GPOS tables
> >
> > and
> >
> > > to apply the lookups as
> > > and when it desires. The font server does nothing
> > > but supply the table info.
>
> I think I know what you mean. Sorry about my mistake.
> Hmm.. I wonder than how a simple application like
> NotePad can do all this though. Maybe there is some
> kind of common library that all text clients could use
> (either bundled with the text client or part of the
> operating system).
>
> My suggestion would be to check with the referenced
> Indian Linux group and ask them how they did it
> exactly.
>

  There are a number of independent implementation for Linux
  Qt is one of them and I heard that OO.o has one too.
  But there is a common library, it's FreeType.

  The thing is that all your suggestions means that the Standard for encoding
  the Qur'an would depend greatly on OpenType (which is a proprietary 
product).
  That's against the spirit of the Unicode Standard which should not depend on
  proprietary drafts.

  Not mentioning that the backward compatibility of Unicode would simply break
  (you can't use bitmap fonts anymore, thus for example displaying the Qur'an
   in the Linux Console would be impossilbe yet Unicode claims to be
   compatible with older applications)

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt